Canon TS3153 Printer Drivers Free and Review

When I combined the results from printing our more complex PowerPoint, Excel, and Acrobat documents comprised of color, graphics and photos with the results from the previous Word document test, the TS3120's score dropped to 2.1 ppm, or about 1 page every 30 seconds. Here again, it outdid only the HP 3755 (1.4 ppm), but none of the AIOs in this group topped 5ppm, or 10 seconds per page. Canon's Pixma TS5020 and TS6120 performed the best, at about 4.7 ppm. None of these consumer-grade photo-centric AIOs are really suited for producing more than about 50 or so business document pages each month.

Where many of them excel, however, is at printing 4-by-6-inch (and 5-by-7-inch) snapshots. Granted, the TS3120's average print time of 1 minute 4 seconds isn't that great, but its higher-end siblings (the TS5020 and TS6120) managed to print the same pages in around 20 seconds in our tests. Typically, if the quality in the driver is set to High or Best, a print time of less than 1 minute is pretty good.

You can't expect a four-ink consumer-grade photo printer to churn out better-looking output than a six-ink one, especially when printing photos. But let's look at the TS3120's text output first. Its text came out well-shaped, well-delineated, and highly legible down to well under 10 points in our text document tests, making it more than suitable for most family, student, or home office tasks. Business charts and graphs and other colorful graphics printed well, too. The only problem I saw was on a dark-green-flowing-to-black gradient designed specifically for testing a printer's proclivity for banding. There was noticeable banding on this full-page background fill, but it wasn't close to unsightly or unusable.